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Crowds of demonstrators were gathered informally at about six plazas downtown to hear speakers or to listen to rock concerts. The largest crowd was in front of the National Gallery, about two blocks from the White House...
...relatively small one. For most purposes, however, the inclusion of restricted endowment and gift income and expense in this summary is misleading. The uses for which this money can be spent often are not those for which our greatest need now exists. In 1969/70, for example, the largest single increase in budgeted expenditure is for scholarships. Most of that increase must come from unrestricted funds. If one care to appraise the Faculty's ability to take on new commitments immediately as the need arises, then the trend in unrestricted surpluses and deficits is probably a more accurate indicator-although...
Died. Robert E. Wood, 90, soldier turned merchant king, who built Sears, Roebuck and Co. into the world's largest merchandising concern; in Lake Forest, Ill. A West Pointer (1900) who rose to brigadier general, Wood had one motto: "Let's charge!" And charge he did soon after he joined Sears as a vice president in 1924. Within four years he was president, and what was previously a rural mail-order house swiftly expanded into retail stores, insurance and financing. One of Wood's wisest moves was pioneering an employee profit-sharing plan that now owns...
...Until last June, each university had its performance reviewed by the agency that provided the largest research grant. For Harvard, that meant the Atomic Energy Commission...
Nearly all of the regressively in the local tax bundle is explained by property taxes, the largest single source of income for the City, For a mayor as concerned with questions of equity as Lindsay is, raising local revenue is a "damned if you do-damned if you don't" proposition...